I began this class with very little nutritional knowledge. During week one of this class, it became evident to me that my eating habits were completely unhealthy. Before taking this course, my interpretation of eating right consisted of eating foods that I thought were healthy, and basically sticking to that particular meal plan. I started this class coming off of a self-created protein diet plan of my own. My diet plan consisted solely upon eating cereal for breakfast, chicken breast, white rice, and egg whites for lunch, and drinking a protein shake for dinner, every week on days Monday through Friday. For the weekends, I would basically eat whatever I wanted. The weekends were considered my grace period where I was allowed to ignore my diet for two days. About a week or two before the course began, I had completely stopped my protein diet, and I was basically back to eating whatever I had a taste for at any given time of the day. I had lost all discipline and obedience to my “healthy” meal plan. The amount of meals I would have each day varied from one meal a day, to two or three meals a day. Rarely was it consistent. I would skip out on breakfast on many occasions. On some days, I would eat solely junk food all day long. Water was almost inexistent in my life. Completing week one’s assignments gave me an opportunity to actually read how bad my eating habits were as I typed them in. I also learned that my once proclaimed healthy diet was in fact not as healthy as I thought it was. I also learned that I was missing key foods necessary to live a long and healthy life such as fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables were nonexistent in my life. Vegetables, I never took well to. Fruits just did not seem as important to me as they should have been, and they definitely never satisfied my sugar craves. I learned the importance of fruits and vegetables. I learned that they provide the vitamins, minerals, and fibers my body needs to live a successfully healthy...

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Water or drinks is one of the important aspects towards a healthy lifestyle. The habit of drinking sweet and carbonated drinks should be replaced with drinking plenty of plain water. There is also another alternative to consume healthy fluid for diet such as tea which consists of green tea, black tea, or even chrysanthemum tea. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) proves that tea brings a lot of benefits to the people. Tea or specifically black tea has the ability to reduce cardiovascular risks and cancer. It also reduces blood pressure in patients with hypertension and neutralises negative effects of high fat meals on arterial blood flow. Besides, polyphenol and theanine amino acid in tea improve bone quality and strength to prevent osteoporosis and able to increase performance,...

...vitamins (fat and water-soluble) and the importance of each vitamin. This course enabled me to learn about the energy nutrients; Fat, Carbohydrates, Protein, and Alcohol. Although, alcohol isn’t considered to be a nutrient because it interferes with the body’s growth, maintenance, and repair. Also the Renal Diet, from the class presentation assignment. Diets are used to be very essential and to also help with the treatment process.
Some of the personal nutritional habits I learned that I may look and feel healthy, but I’m really not eating healthy. After being introduced to the Diet Analysis Program using the My Plate Guide, I realized that I really need to watch what I eat regularly. I was eating way too many empty calories (165%) and protein (120%). I started to cut back on the soda beverages, and eating fewer sweets as snacks. Also, I added more grains and diary to my meals by drinking more milk, including the flavor milks instead of a soda. I could expect to see my health improve by keep recording my daily food intake and stick to the My Plate guidelines.
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As we begin our journey into the twenty-first century, society has turned to the Internet to find out what is going on with the world. With society searching for all the answers on their computers, we may soon be finding solutions to what and how we should be eating. Often, the articles read may be misleading and do not cover both sides of the issue. In recent years, several dietary movements have arisen from the objection to the inhumane treatment of animals. Medical evidence has linked these diets to many health benefits and risks. Dieting and the types of food that we consume have been shown to affect our lives in ways that we have been unaware of, such as cholesterol levels, heart disease, and colon cancer. These types of diseases in western societies are results of excess, rather than of deficiency. According to the American Dietetic Association, vegetarians have a lower risk for these diseases (http://envirolink.org/arrs/vo/ArgumentMedical.html). With medical arguments in favor of cutting meat out of one's diet, a more extreme vegetarian diet has gained attention. A vegan...

...people, than only the ones that want to lose weight. The definition says a diet is a special course of food to which a person is restricted, either for weight control or for medical reasons. For whatever reason a diet is followed, when can we conclude it is or isn’t recommended to follow a diet?
Only a small group of people are restricted to following a diet. It’s not the people we think of first, the ones who need to lose weight, but it’s the ones who need it for medical reasons or elite sports incentives. For all rest, people like you and me, it is rather a question if we really need a diet with restrictive prescriptions. Why not just learn how to maintain healthy habits and live by them like a so called easy lifetime diet?
Dieting requires behavioral changes that are not easy to adopt or maintain in the long run. A dieting plan with a balanced intake of foods may reduce your risks for chronic diseases. On the other hand, if you do not plan carefully, dieting may increase your risk of nutritional deficiencies. It is recommended to consult your doctor before embarking upon any diet plan.
When a diet is for medical reasons, the medical benefits are determinative for executing the diet. But what about personal reasons? The biggest benefit of dieting is that you can lose weight, especially when you also engage in physical...

...when you finish eating each meal you should "still have some room leftover" (in your stomach) afterward. You should still have enough room left to eat something else if you wanted to, but of course you won't be eating anything else. *If you have no room leftover to eat something else then that means you've eaten more than necessary. Always eat slightly less if you're not sure when to stop eating at each meal -- but you should always feel "satisfied" after eating of course, you should NEVER starve yourself.
*Also, remember that each day's meals can be eaten in ANY ORDER (you don't have to eat all 4 meals in order, you can have Meal #1 for dinner and Meal #4 for breakfast if you choose to). 11 Day Diet SHOWN BELOW (The DIET RULES and the FOOD PREP instructions are shown at end of diet, please be sure and read them)
DAY #1
Meal #1: For Meal #1 you may eat any combination of the below foods that you wish (you may eat all or just 1 of the below foods, it's up to you). *There are NO LIMITS ON PORTIONS (you get to choose how much to eat ---- but please remember that you must eat portions small enough so that you never feel "full", that's the only rule). Roast Beef Slices Scrambled Eggs Bowl of Oatmeal
Meal #2: For Meal #2 you may eat any combination of the below foods that you wish (you may eat all or just 1 of the below foods, it's up to you). *There are NO LIMITS ON PORTIONS (you get to choose how much to eat ---- but please...